Apple need to make a Casual Console next Gen

Apple are going to make a casual console next gen

Nintendo have a monopoly on the casual home console market at the moment

if apple make a casual consle like the wii, nintendo will be taken down a level and will try to make good games instead of just rehashing the same old and knowing it will sell millions because they have no competition

who agrees?

the hordes of apple fanboys will buy it
this is more about nintendo needing competition

look at SMG2, 10/10 reviews, despite being a rehash (really its just a copy and paste)
only nintendo can do that

besides, the wii 2 needs to be more than just a wii with slighty better graphics, how about some good online service and a bigger HDD?

Only if they make hardcore games.

lol who am I kidding, its Apple! :lol:

Casual consoles aren't priced exorbitantly high, so no.shinrabanshou

>casual consoles

you mean casual console? nintendo have no competition

Yeah, $50 retail Wii games would be hard to compete with $5-10 Apple party games. You might have something there. Only time will tell.

[QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]Casual consoles aren't priced exorbitantly high, so no.Ultizer

>casual consoles

you mean casual console? nintendo have no competition

Well, that's something I won't have to buy.

Apple doesn't even have their own devs. :lol:

[QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]Casual consoles aren't priced exorbitantly high, so no.Ultizer

>casual consoles

you mean casual console? nintendo have no competition

no they dont.. they can just make a new over priced iphone every year. and people will call off work to line up tobuy them.

Apple products are the worst on the market. I will never buy an Apple video game console.

i think they will have apple tv with games and it will be like the ipad with cheap simple games apple will find some gimmick and be able to sell it even if its 500$

Pretty sure Nintendo is one of if not the best game developers around. I do agree that something has to be done to make nintendo work harder for good, committed third party support though,

no they dont.. they can just make a new over priced iphone every year. and people will call off work to line up tobuy them.

monson21502

i hte apple products. they try to be mandatory for evrything. wen i put itunesbon my conputer it forced me to put quicktime on it. i hate quicktime. and macs blow ass. and apple products are way to over priced. if they did make a console it wouldnt sell cuz no one can afford it and if its for the casual market then it rly qont selk any because thw casual people arent willing enough to go and spebd the money on somethibg like that wen they could jist stick with thw wii that they alrdy haveevilmaster2424

Not going to happen. 1. Apple has no first party studios to speak of. 2. Apple would have trouble attracting third parties due to their controlling nature. 3. Pippin 4. Apple hasn't priced a single product reasonably in over a decade. Remember the reaction to Sony's 599 US DOLLARS debacle? Well, imagine that. Except Apple doesn't have a history of making great consoles. Or any big name intellectual properties like Ratchet, Jak, God of War, Gran Turismo, Ape Escape, SOCOM, Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted, LBP, etc to fall back on. As an aside, your comments about Nintendo are so far beyond absurd I don't even know where to begin.savebattery

Pretty much this.

Apple doesn't even have their own devs. :lol:

Crazyguy105

I don't think they need to.

Steam is available on Macs now.

Game Centre will be available on iPhones/iPods

iPads virtually have no tablet competition

and http://au.wireless.ign.com/articles/106/1063222p1.htmlTop 25 iphone games.

though that doesn't also mention other games like Real Racing HD, Command and Conquer, Star Quest and iPad games

Heck Nintendo considers them the real competition not Sony's PSP.

Nintendo and Apple have more in common since they can target and appeal to a similair demographic.

Apple made mistakes like Pippin and Apple TV but then so have Nintendo with Virtual Boy, Powerglove and the less popular console N64, but that hasn't stopped them from learning from their mistakes and trying again.

Sony's PSP GO- we all have to admit here that this device is a failure, but that hasn't stopped Sony from releasing PSP2.

[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"][QUOTE="savebattery"]Not going to happen. 1. Apple has no first party studios to speak of. 2. Apple would have trouble attracting third parties due to their controlling nature. 3. Pippin 4. Apple hasn't priced a single product reasonably in over a decade. Remember the reaction to Sony's 599 US DOLLARS debacle? Well, imagine that. Except Apple doesn't have a history of making great consoles. Or any big name intellectual properties like Ratchet, Jak, God of War, Gran Turismo, Ape Escape, SOCOM, Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted, LBP, etc to fall back on. As an aside, your comments about Nintendo are so far beyond absurd I don't even know where to begin.savebattery

no big name devs huh?

gta china town wars is on the iphone

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/029/029854.html

along with nfs shift

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/032/032098.html

and a great halo substitute

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/031/031436.html

racer with better graphics than most ps2 games

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/143/14322786.html

anyone saying iphone is a joke for games hasn't looked into the huge development in games in the last few years.

Then the 8gb pspgo costs the same as the 32gb ipod touch. imprezawrx500

first party titles are dying, imprezawrx500

ubi activison and ea games are far far more important than all of sony's Microsoft's and Nintendo's games combined. imprezawrx500

Uhh... Nintendo has clearly won this generation in terms of sales.

ubi activison and ea all have games on the iphone. imprezawrx500

Most of those are just afterthought cash-ins. [QUOTE="imprezawrx500"] the quality of games on it is only growing. the ds is loading with crappy games as far as I'm concerned.

[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"][QUOTE="savebattery"]Not going to happen. 1. Apple has no first party studios to speak of. 2. Apple would have trouble attracting third parties due to their controlling nature. 3. Pippin 4. Apple hasn't priced a single product reasonably in over a decade. Remember the reaction to Sony's 599 US DOLLARS debacle? Well, imagine that. Except Apple doesn't have a history of making great consoles. Or any big name intellectual properties like Ratchet, Jak, God of War, Gran Turismo, Ape Escape, SOCOM, Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted, LBP, etc to fall back on. As an aside, your comments about Nintendo are so far beyond absurd I don't even know where to begin.savebattery

Xbox360 is doing fine with relatively little 1st party support, seems more so then Sony and "teh" graphics king exclusives so same can be said about Apple then.

no 1st party support on Mac has not stopped Valve from supporting Mac with Steam and they did demo what the iPhone is capable of as well as Epic.

So what if gaming is an afterthought on iPhones/iPods/iPads/iMacs or anything Apple- it's stillvery popular and quite successful enough to garner dedicated forums on game websites like this one and gamefaqs.com on gaming.

I wouldn't be surprised with the advantage of a phone and ever ready games machine more people would play games on their iPhone then PSP owners

Nintendo considers Apple the threat, not Sony's PSP-thats from a company that has owned the handheld gaming market for close to 15 years!

Apple very much owns the portable music player market-Sony is irrelevant in it

Apple is now a major player on the smart phone market

They now dominate Amazon Kindle in the eBooks market

Apple is considered the most valuable tech company in the world

ohh... and what about Street Fighter 4 on the iPhone?

[QUOTE="savebattery"][QUOTE="imprezawrx500"] 1 doesn't stop there being a tone of great games for the iphone/ipod touch 2 psp/ds is far more closed than the ipod touch 3 gamecube 4 sure apple computers are expensive but the ipod is very competivily priced compared to other mp3 players and there aren't really any others that have the features of the ipod touch Just look at the itunes apps store to see apple already has lots of decent games, even games like splinter cell conviction are on the iphone and it has some of the best graphics on a moblie device. They wont have much of a problem attracting game devs for the low cost associated with developing iphone games compared to psp/ds. imprezawrx500

no big name devs huh?

gta china town wars is on the iphone

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/029/029854.html

along with nfs shift

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/032/032098.html

and a great halo substitute

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/031/031436.html

racer with better graphics than most ps2 games

http://au.wireless.ign.com/objects/143/14322786.html

anyone saying iphone is a joke for games hasn't looked into the huge development in games in the last few years.

or don't actually have an iPhone/iPod and tried those games, ignores the dedicated forums on iPod/iPhone gaming on Gamespot and Gamefaqs.